In these gifted achievers, we see the richness of talent and the
passion for excellence that inspired Ralph Hayes to create the Common Wealth
Awards. He developed a global hypertext
system to retrieve and access information using the power of the Internet. In 1991, he posted the Web software on the
Internet -creating the first Web site-and made it freely available to the
world. And a theoretical philosopher , Albert Einstein, showed its
application. "That could cause real social
problems over time as a space traveler gets farther and farther out of date
with their contemporaries.

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Hayes served on the board of directors of PNC Bank Delaware's predecessor
banks from 1935 to 1965.

Amy Tan
Best-selling novelist, Amy Tan, 53, is a critically acclaimed and
significant voice in modern Asian-American literature. He was
one of three renowned scientists who conceived and founded LIGO--the Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In fact, in the novel Hubbard writes , "Earth will not
live forever.

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"They have educated, entertained and enlightened people the
world over. He wins the
2005 Common Wealth Award for Government. Tan's popular stories are informed by her
Chinese-American heritage as they explore family ties and understanding,
memory and inheritance , generational tensions and conflicting cultures. Thorne
has been at the vanguard of researchers studying gravitational waves,
hypothetical ripples in space produced by disturbances in the universe.

There are bigger problems, he adds. Meaning? "Space
travelers returning to Earth would have experienced only a few years, while
decades could have passed on Earth," says Dr.
"It would get very tricky if special relativity was addressed."

One science fiction writer who tackled the subject head on was L.

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Powell Mamet Berners-Lee Tan and Thorne Win 2005 Common Wealth Awards

Hayes conceived
the awards to reward and encourage the best of human performance worldwide. Powell proved himself an influential statesman as he worked to build
coalitions, forge alliances and spread the universal values of democracy and
freedom across the globe. Pournelle.

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Berners-Lee dubbed his new
creation the World Wide Web. Jerry Pournelle (best-selling author and
Science Editor of Byte magazine).

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Powell , USA (Ret.

PRESS RELEASE 100 Years Later Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity Still Fascinates Perplexes Theoretical Space Travelers

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The final selection of the honorees is the decision of the Executory of
the Common Wealth Trust. PNC Bank, Delaware has been trustee and administrator
for the Common Wealth Awards since their inception. In creating the Common Wealth Awards, he sought to
recognize outstanding achievement in seven disciplines: dramatic arts,
literature, science and invention, mass communications, public service,
government, and sociology. He is acclaimed worldwide for his mentoring of
young scientists and his groundbreaking work in applying general relativity to
astrophysics .2 years one way.

Hubbard believed that interstellar travel and space exploration were the
hope for humanity.

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newscom.), 68, has dedicated his life to the service of his country. Berners-
Lee is director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he guides the Web's on-going development. Her subsequent novels, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred
Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter further distinguished Tan as one
of America's most gifted fiction writers. Pournelle."

For more information, visit www.

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The awards also provide an incentive for people to
make future contributions to the world community.

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David Mamet
David Mamet, 57, winner of the 2005 Common Wealth Award for Dramatic Arts,
is renowned as a playwright, screenwriter, movie director and author.

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), former Secretary of State and
respected leader, diplomat and soldier, for Government;
- David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright , Hollywood screenwriter
and pre-eminent dramatist, for Dramatic Arts;
- Tim Berners -Lee, visionary inventor of the World Wide Web and director
of the World Wide Web consortium , for Mass Communications;
- Amy Tan, best-selling novelist whose stories explore family ties ,
heritage and the Asian-American experience, for Literature;
- Kip Thorne, foremost American researcher of black holes and
gravitational waves, for Science and Invention. He wins the
2005 Common Wealth Award for Mass Communications. The book became an
immediate literary sensation, spending nine months on the New York Times
bestseller list. Thorne is the Feynman
Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology,
where he has taught since 1966 .

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(NYSE: PNC).
The 2005 winners continue the Common Wealth legacy of excellence and
achievement . Powell, USA
(Ret. A signature element of
Mamet's writing is his sparse, staccato dialogue, which one reviewer described
as "poetic impression of streetwise jargon. Berners-Lee envisioned a
global information space where documents stored on computers everywhere could
be interconnected and available to everyone. Thorne co-
authored the classic textbook, Gravitation, and he authored the bestseller for
lay readers, Black Holes and Time Warps, Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. Assuming a near light -speed propulsion
system were invented, getting to Proxima Centauri (the star nearest to the
Sun ) would take 4."

"When you finished a round trip, you would have hardly aged compared to the
folks you left on Earth," says Dr.

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The awards are funded by
the Common Wealth Trust.

In this category you can find everything on the possibilities of time travel (illusion or reality?) and Einstein's theory of relativity.

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The honorees will receive a shared prize of $250,000 at tonight's gala
ceremony , hosted by PNC Bank, Delaware at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington. As a screenwriter, he
earned Oscar nominations for The Verdict and Wag the Dog. She wins the 2005
Common Wealth Award for Literature . Ron
Hubbard. and unless he is helped, neither will man," adding, "This
ship and her sisters in the stars and on the passage are, without the
slightest help from Earth, the only means which shall cause man to survive
as a race and triumph everywhere.

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com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050423/CLSA001 )

Winners of the 2005 Common Wealth Awards are:
- Gen.
The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service were first presented in
1979 by the Common Wealth Trust, created under the will of the late Ralph
Hayes, an influential business executive and philanthropist.)
Leader, diplomat, statesman and soldier, General Colin L.

Tim Berners-Lee
British computer scientist, Tim Berners -Lee, 49, revolutionized modern
communication with his landmark invention of the World Wide Web. His innovative research has elucidated gravitational waves,
black holes, neutron stars and the nature of space, time and gravity.

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"Popular science fiction fare basically leaps over the issue of aging while
heroes and villains travel to and from solar systems," says Dr. In the introduction to the novel ,
Hubbard states: "Two mathematicians derived the equations first -- Lorentz
and Fitzgerald."

"I'm not sure we'll have an answer to this in the next 100 years, but we'll
continue to speculate and make scientific advances in space exploration,"
says Dr.

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Powell's personal integrity and
pragmatic leadership have earned him the esteem of the American people and a
place in history as an American icon. Her essay,
"Mother Tongue," which is included in The Opposite of Fate, was chosen for
Best American Essays in 1991 and has been widely anthologized. Einstein's 1905 theory of special
relativity says that if we could travel at or near the speed of light,
time, as regulated by a stationary point such as Earth, would differ
greatly from time as measured on the moving vessel. Pournelle..com.

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(Photo: http://www. Other winners include actor and advocate for the
disabled, the late Christopher Reeve; dance legend Mikhail Baryshnikov;
primatologist Jane Goodall; former First Lady Betty Ford; ocean explorer
Robert Ballard; actress Meryl Streep; television journalist Walter Cronkite;
and DuPont scientist, Stephanie Kwolek, the Delaware resident who helped
invent Kevlar.

General Colin L. He served
as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military's top post, and
distinguished himself during the successful Desert Shield and Desert Storm
operations.
Researchers have discovered the possibility
of billions or trillions of stars and planets like our own in existence,
but can you imagine what would happen if you could visit just one of them
at near light-speed?

In the 100th anniversary year of Albert Einstein's published theory of
special relativity, the physics of reaching even the closest of star
systems remain daunting, says Dr.

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Army for 35 years and rose to the rank of four-star general. A Broadway revival of
Glengarry Glen Ross began April 8.

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Colin L. PNC Bank, Delaware is a
member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. He went on
to serve as National Security Advisor, becoming the first African-American to
hold the position, as he has been in every office he has held since. Mamet's
critically acclaimed plays include the Pulitzer Prize -winning Glengarry Glen
Ross, American Buffalo, Speed the Plow and Oleanna. He has never sold or patented the Web for his personal profit. He is
now spearheading work on the "Semantic Web," a universal medium that will make
information understandable by machines as well as humans. Tan has also published her memoirs,
titled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings.

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Over the
past 30 years, he has achieved international stature as one of the most
influential and original voices in the history of American drama. Other successful
screenplays include The Untouchables, House of Games, which marked his
directorial debut, The Spanish Prisoner and Spartan." His newest play, Romance, made
its world premiere in February 2005 at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater
Company, a repertory company he co-founded in 1985.

Kip Thorne
For four decades, astrophysicist Kip Thorne, 64, has been opening new
windows on the universe for scientists and lay audiences alike.

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, The 2005 Common Wealth Awards
of Distinguished Service will be presented tonight to five renowned achievers
at a special ceremony here honoring the individuals and their outstanding
contributions to the world community.
The Common Wealth Award roster of honorees reads like a "Who's Who" of
modern history. Powell was a professional soldier in the
U. In 2001, President George W.

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S. Her short stories and essays
have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Yorker and others. Using LIGO's instruments,
physicists hope to detect and measure gravitational waves and use them to
probe the nature of gravity and the dark side of the universe.

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Among the past winners are 11 Nobel laureates, including human
rights leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former statesman Henry Kissinger and
author Toni Morrison. Powell served a four-year term as Secretary of
State, and stepped down from office on January 26, 2005.

He
wrote the underlying technical codes-URLs, HTTP and HTML-created the first Web
server software and the original browser program. Her
first book, The Joy Luck Club, published in 1989, tells the poignant tales of
four Chinese women and their American-born daughters. Pournelle. But if Lorentz and Fitzgerald and Einstein gave man his Solar
System, they almost denied to him the stars.

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Five world-renowned achievers honored for their outstanding contributions

WILMINGTON, Del.5 million in
prize money to 153 honorees of international renown.
"The 2005 Common Wealth Award honorees are global voices whose
achievements resonate in the arts, science and the political arena," said
Connie Bond Stuart, chairman, president and chief executive officer of PNC
Bank, Delaware. Powell , USA (Ret. He receives
the 2005 Common Wealth Award for Science and Invention.

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Now in their 26th year, the awards have conferred more than $3. Bush appointed Powell 65th Secretary
of State. Mamet 's plays are noted
for their gritty reality as they examine the struggles of working-class
characters in a morally bereft and predatory society. Indeed, Hubbard based his classic 1950 novel "To the Stars " on the
possibilities of the theory itself..